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Government seeking to stymie report on TPPA
Tuesday, 19 April 2016, 10:56 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
"Why the government suddenly announced it is fast-tracking the report date for the select committee considering the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) from the end of May to 4 May is now clear. More >>
Govt majority on TPPA committee shows hearings are a farce
Friday, 4 March 2016, 9:17 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
National’s majority on the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade committee has refused to extend the deadline for submissions on the 30-chapter Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) past the 15 sitting days set out in the Cabinet manual, despite ... More >>
New paper on TPPA shows serious impacts for local govt
Tuesday, 23 February 2016, 10:38 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
An expert, peer reviewed, paper on the implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) for local government was released today. The paper was co-authored by former city councillor and chair of Watercare Services, Tony Holman QSO, former ... More >>
The TPPA is the China FTA on Steroids!
Monday, 1 February 2016, 11:56 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
30 January 2016 Do your homework Export NZ: The TPPA is the China FTA on Steroids! ‘Claims by Export NZ that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is basically no different from the NZ-China FTA shows appalling ignorance of both agreements’, ... More >>
Desperate Key trying to redefine TPPA as law & order issue
Thursday, 28 January 2016, 9:34 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘News that police have been visiting opponents of the TPPA ahead of next week’s signing is the latest step in an orchestrated move by the Prime Minister to try to redefine the signing of the hugely unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement ... More >>
TPPA more a ‘National Government Interest Analysis'
Tuesday, 26 January 2016, 12:09 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
The formal National Interest Analysis (NIA) on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) released by Trade Minister Todd McClay today is simply an expanded version of the so-called ‘fact sheets’ prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ... More >>
Lori Wallach & political panel: “TPPA: Don’t sign”
Tuesday, 26 January 2016, 9:10 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Lori Wallach & political panel: “TPPA: Don’t sign” - Auckland Town Hall, 7pm Tues 26 Jan More >>
Expert paper on TPPA & Treaty of Waitangi
Thursday, 21 January 2016, 9:26 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
The third in a series of expert peer reviewed papers on the implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement for Aotearoa New Zealand was posted on the tpplegal website today. [1] More >>
TPPA: Don’t Sign! speaking tour
Thursday, 21 January 2016, 9:21 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Lori Wallach, Director of US consumer group Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch and the foremost critical commentator on TPPA in Washington DC, will be in New Zealand for a series of public meetings on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) ... More >>
Ministers to sign TPPA in NZ on 4 February 2016
Thursday, 7 January 2016, 11:28 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Offshore confirmation: Ministers to sign TPPA in NZ on 4 February 2016 The ministers from the twelve countries who negotiated the the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will sign it in New Zealand on 4 February, a government spokesperson from ... More >>
Expert analyses of TPPA on process and investment released
Thursday, 3 December 2015, 9:23 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
The first two in a series of expert peer-reviewed papers analysing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement from a New Zealand perspective were released today. More >>
High Court can’t make Groser provide TPPA information faster
Thursday, 26 November 2015, 4:46 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
High Court says it can’t make Groser provide TPPA information faster ‘for now’ ‘This week we went back to court to challenge Trade Minister Groser’s stalling tactics over the release of information on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement ... More >>
Groser avoids principled reconsideration of TPPA OIA
Thursday, 12 November 2015, 5:34 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
A month ago the High Court ordered Trade Minister Tim Groser to reconsider an Official Information Act request from Professor Jane Kelsey, dated January 2015, relating to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). More >>
Obama’s 90 days start of US politicing to rewrite TPPA
Friday, 6 November 2015, 5:28 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Following release of the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) last night, President Obama has given the 90-day notice to Congress that is required before he can sign the agreement. More >>
Government’s snow job on TPPA now exposed
Friday, 6 November 2015, 8:08 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘As expected, access to the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement reveals major holes in the government’s “fact sheets”’, says Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey. An initial review of the most controversial chapters confirms ... More >>
TPPA text finally released – too little, too late!
Thursday, 5 November 2015, 9:27 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘Today’s release of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement text ends the farcical situation where governments were touting the benefits for the nation with no prospect of any independent assessment to contradict them,’ said University of Auckland ... More >>
Court finds against Trade Minister on TPPA Secrecy
Tuesday, 13 October 2015, 11:07 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Court finds against Trade Minister on TPPA Secrecy; Chief Ombudsman wrongly upheld his unlawful decision The High Court today vindicted charges that Trade Minister Tim Groser acted unlawfully in his quest to keep all information about the Trans-Pacific ... More >>
Government's credibility in tatters
Tuesday, 13 October 2015, 8:27 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Government's credibility in tatters: Key invites Labour to breach TPPA & be sued by foreign investors More >>
Farce of TPPA secrecy must end
Sunday, 11 October 2015, 9:59 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘The secrecy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement has become farcical’, says University of Auckland Professor Jane Kelsey. ‘Trade Minister Tim Groser says we just have to trust what he’s telling us. In today’s interview with TVNZ’s ... More >>
Final TPPA intellectual property chapter leaked
Saturday, 10 October 2015, 12:37 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘Inevitably, leaks are starting to fill the void of official texts from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)’, says Professor Jane Kelsey, who has been pressing for the release of final texts to allow proper assessment of the government’s claims. More >>
